Should Web Designers Drop IE6 Support?
IE6 was released in August 2001 but despite being nearly nine years old, it is still the most common problem that web designers have when building a website. Is it finally time to drop support for the browser that is almost an antique in technology years? Sadly the answer isn’t quite black and white.
Google: Have they copied Bing.com?
Google very rarely make huge changes to their general search results but they’ve made substantial changes, particularly to their search results page recently, this article explains some of the changes as well as a few similarities with their competition.
13 Google Chrome Extensions for a Web Designer
As some of you who follow my Twitter feed or Facebook page will already know, I’ve recently switched to Google Chrome. I’ve been reluctant to switch from Firefox for a long time purely because of my huge admiration for Firebug and the Web Developer Toolbar, however that’s all changed thanks to the Google Chrome Extensions [...]
IE9 Preview
Microsoft have made their first preview for Internet Explorer 9 available for testing. At this stage I’m pretty impressed with the progress they’re making but what can you expect from the new browser?
Perspectives on Cross-Cultural Web Design
It’s easy to get caught up in the design of your website. Transforming sketches and notes from the back of a napkin into a bunch of all-singing, all-dancing web pages gives a tremendous sense of achievement to amateurs and professionals alike: turning visions into realities certainly is satisfying.
How to become a Freelance Web Designer
I get a lot of emails from interested readers who want to know how to become a freelance web designer so I thought it might be a good time to write an article explaining how to get into this industry and share my experience as to how I got to where I am today.
Blank browser windows for Photoshop mockups
When creating mockups for websites, it’s useful to use a blank browser window within Photoshop so that you get a good feel for how the design will look when it’s actually rendered as a web page.
To make this process slightly easier, I’ve put together a collection of blank browser windows for Firefox, Internet Explorer, Google [...]
Web Browser News
Over the last couple of weeks Google have caused a bit of a stir in the world of web browsers. First they announced that they’d be dropping support for Internet Explorer 6 and that was shortly followed by news that Chrome 4.0 had been released. Microsoft have been patching IE after a security flaw was [...]
Using em’s for font sizing
Many web designers still use pixels for sizing their fonts within a web page, however this presents an accessibility problem on devices and browsers (namely Internet Explorer) which don’t allow pixels to be resized. The solution is to use ems or percentages to size the font so that they’re relative to the base font size [...]
Project folder structure for a web designer
I’ve always been fairly well organised when it comes to projects but up until recently, I haven’t had a standardised way of structuring my folders which occasionally leads to hunting for that piece of documentation that’s hiding in a folder buried deep in a directory structure. I’m now using a method that is consistent across [...]